Looks like we've got Battle Royale on our hands with team Kate Middleton on one side and team Meghan Markle on the other. Please note, it is the “teams” doing the battling and not the Duchesses themselves. The Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex are being heavily trolled by netizens on social media who are disguising themselves as “fans”.
Looks like Ekta Kapoor just got the plot for her next daily soap! Wow, even the Royal Family couldn’t be spared from the “jethani-and-devrani-can’t-get-along” stereotype because of course two women can NEVER like each other, right?
These pretend loyalists of the two royal ladies slinging vicious comments on social media defending their “favourite” has Indian family drama written all over it. Why is it so important for people to know whether they're eternal best friends or mortal enemies? And so what if they are neither?
Well all I’ve got to say to the trollers out there trying to break their ghar-ki -sukh -shanti by making the two “bahuranis” fight is STOP. Stop now and let The Royal Family live like the ultimate Sooraj Barjatiya movie that they are. Okay? Thank you!
But because no one is listening, here’s what else happened. In light of this social media harassment, the Royal Family on Monday, issued a new set of rules and polices which threaten to block and report social media trolls to the police according The Telegraph.
These rules are meant to create a “safer environment” for accounts run by the Royal Family, Clarence House and the Kensington Palace as reported by Global News and have been issued by them for the first time ever.
With aggressive and offensive commentary especially on the pictures posted on the official accounts of the Cambridges and Sussexes, the guidelines ask people engaging with their social media channels to “show courtesy, kindness and respect for all other members of our social media communities.”
While neither of the Duchesses has personal social media accounts, Meghan having closed hers down before marrying Prince Harry, their official accounts such as the Kensington Palace Instagram account has over 7 million followers.
The guidelines state that comments must not “contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote sexually explicit material or violence”, or “promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.”
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